If they say, Walk with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause,

we shall find all sorts of precious stuff, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

My son, do not walk in the way with them! Withhold your foot from their path;

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

So are the ways of everyone who gets unjust gain; it takes away the soul of its master.

Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Now let me choose twelve thousand men, and I shall arise and pursue David tonight.

Then I shall bring back all the people to you. When all return, except the man whom you seek, all the people shall be at peace.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

For among My people are found wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Woe is me! For I am like the gatherings of summer fruit, like the gleanings of the vintage. There is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fruit.

The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each one hunts his brother with a net.

And when it was day, some of the Jews made a pact and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they should kill Paul.

Now you, therefore, together with the council, communicate to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make more specific inquiries concerning him; and we are ready to kill him before he comes near.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.

In the mouth of the fool is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall keep them.

And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries to destroy the Jews.

So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been summoned, has but one law: to put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Furthermore, I have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.

And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: Do not think in your soul that you will escape in the king's house any more than all the other Jews.

For we have been sold, my people and I, to be annihilated, killed and destroyed. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent, although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman! Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.